Jacobs has had some conversations and will continue to have conversations with basketball advisers, but there will be no search committee.

"Our attention now turns to the search for a new coach, which I will be leading," Jacobs wrote in a letter to donors. "I intend to hire a coach who will make a turnaround happen."

In the 15 months since he hired Gus Malzahn to lead the football program, and even before that, Jacobs' method of conducting searches has evolved.

Four years ago, Jacobs leaned on advice from former South Carolina coach Eddie Fogler, NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley and a search firm led by former Auburn basketball player John Mengelt.

Jacobs also worked with a committee of former players -- Bo Jackson, Pat Sullivan and Mac Crawford -- in the search that landed Malzahn.

But he has shifted away from that method in recent searches, conducting both the baseball search that landed Sunny Golloway in the same manner that he's currently conducting the basketball search, and it was Jacobs who had the lead on senior women's athletic director Meredith Jenkins was heavily involved.

Although Jacobs is taking advice from a few people, the eventual hire will be his alone.

For that reason, the stream of information that used to surface in Auburn coaching searches will likely slow to a trickle as Jacobs searches for his next basketball coach.

Several names have popped up in conjunction with Auburn's open coaching position, including former Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl, Southern Miss's Donnie Tyndall, Louisiana Tech coach Mike White. It appears that a few other names mentioned in conjunction with the job, like former Mississippi State coach Rick Stansbury, do not appear to be candidates.

For the most part so far, though, speculation has slowed and stayed confined to initial lists put together by several media outlets.

In recent years, Jacobs has worked very hard to keep his searches away from the public eye, a lesson learned from his first round of hirings, when reporters tracked the school plane and often met potential coaching candidates at the airport.

Interviews for the football coaching search were conducted in several locations away from campus, according to Jacobs, and the hires of both Golloway and Myers both came as a surprise after the two coaches contacted Auburn directly.

Jacobs, who is concerned that publicity could jeopardize a candidate's standing at his current school and possibly jeopardize future Auburn coaching searches, has made keeping information away from the public eye a priority.

"To protect the candidates," Jacobs said in an interview with AL.com back in January. "What you don't want to do is jeopardize somebody's career where they currently are, and that's getting more and more difficult to do. I'm going to do my dead-level best to never compromise anybody's integrity."